Is it possible to have an 'IGNORE' feature for threads?

[Enid]

I have already asked mumsnet for this and they say they have no plans but I'd be interested to see if anyone else would appreciate an 'ignore' feature - like a reverse 'watch'. If you put an 'ignore' on a thread it wouldn't appear in your active convos.

Personally I would find this helpful after the huge number of distressing threads that can get very unpleasant.

Anyone else?

Really don't see the need for an ignore thread. If there is a thread that I want nothing to do with then i don't post on it, simple as that.

If the temtptation to look and post is too much Enid then show some self control and don't.

well, I don't post on all the threads I read so I guess I still have a smidgin of self control.

But I still think its possible to have - and you wouldn't have to use it so its presence shouldn't upset anyone.

marthamoo
you put my feelings across so elequently
it would be restrictive..

lol at the ignoring the ignore..

it wouldnt be restrictive as you wouldn't have to use it

But why can't you yourself just ignore the threads you don't want to participate in ??? I just don't get it.

So how would it work ?? You would have a list telling you what threads you were ignoring ?? Sounds mad to me, but hey if it's what you want.

The main drawback I can see to an ignore feature is the way threads go off topic - you mark a thread as ignore, the conversation changes and you miss out because you don't know it has changed.

But then again, the way some convos go off topic, I might have just argued for an ignore feature.....

It would work like the watch feature - click on ignore and then that thread wouldn't appear in active convos.

No thats a good point Snugs. I sometimes read a thread and think i have nothing to add, but then read it again later and find i can comment after all.

Hmm well i wouldn't use it, but then each to their own i spose.

its not just not participating, I want to ignore them.

Contrary to popular belief, I find some threads upsetting and frustrating beyond words. It would be nice to know that I didn't have to see them popping up all the time.

And I could tailor mumsnet to the mood I am in that day.

oh blimey, i haven't even worked out how to 'watch' a thread yet. have pity...

But it would make Mumsnet restrictive: people would stick to their topics and the huge, rich, varied tapestry that MN is now would be lost. You think it's cliquey now ?

good! nothing wrong with cliques IMO, if you can use them avoid things that upset you.

...use them to avoid things...

I agree completely with marthamoo's post of 9.55am. Beautifully put!

but not correct as it would be an optional feature.

Oh come on! then we could all ignore the Bras thread.

I would like a "lock" feature where a moderator/mumsnet could lock a thread against further postings if people request it.

Sort of one step lower than deleting a thread entirely. Could be unlocked too.

Ah, now, I wouldn't like a lock feature because I HATE being told not to post. I won't post if mumsnet ask me not to (but they so so rarely do, good for them) but I detest being told not to post because someone doesn't like what I have to say or the way the thread's going. Marthamoo, take your point but don't see how ignore would be any different to the watch feature really.

not up to moderator to 'lock' IMO.

But a personal 'ignore' system would work a bit like it - you could ignore upsetting threads

i think it would be a good idea to completely lock threads and make them unreadable in the (fortunately rare) circumstances where unpleasant personal accusations are made, i.e. that if a thread is bound to get deleted/have posts deleted, that further upset is prevented

Agree, shouldn't be up to moderators to lock a thread. Should be up to mn hq.

My lock feature wouldn't make them unreadable so it wouldn't be as drastic as the current deletion.

WWW, the current thread deletion means you're told not to read as well as not post. Far worse. I wouldn't see it as being used flippantly, only where a thread warrents being dropped off active converstations but not deleted. And it would be reversable.

Do you not think that if a thread is locked, someone will just start a new thread in reference to that original thread so as to get their point of view across though? Causing the active convos board to become even more full of threads you don't like?

I find the exercising self control thing difficult.

From childhood, I faced numerous serious suicide attempts from someone v close to me. I can't tell you how shattering it is to walk in from school and find someone in a pool of blood, having cut their wrists, or curled up in a ball, sobbing because they had tried to hang themselves from a light fitting which wasn't strong enough to support their weight.

These kind of life experiences, give some people a huge capacity for caring for, and trying to heal others. I wish that were the case for me, but it isn't. Instead, due to post traumatic stress disorder (which I manage really well most of the time), I've driven myself to threads which I know will make me ill. I cannot help - the capacity to do so was wrung out of me over the years.

I don't want to lose Mumsnet, it has been a lifeline since I discovered it a couple of years ago. My request for the "ignore" thread is v personal and selfish but, I wanted to give my reasons for it. Other reasons suggested for the facility are far more sensible than mine! I know I could go to topics and access threads that way, but I do find it unwieldy.